My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery

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  Eastern theater –
  
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    1^st Bull Run July 21, 1861.
    
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    Because of “Stonewall” Jackson confederate victory!
    
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    Union Soldiers “Skedaddled” back to Wash. D.C.
    
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  Western theater –
  
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    Battle of Shiloh April 6-7, 1862.
    
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    “Hornets Nest”, “Bloody Pond.” Union Victory for US Grant.
    
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    Sobered up the nation. No quick victory in West.
    
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    Shiloh means “Place of Peace” in Hebrew.
    

III. War at Sea.

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  Union “Anaconda Plan” led to blockade running.
  
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  March 9, 1862 off Hampton Roads, Virginia clash of Ironclads “Monitor vs. Merrimack.” It was a draw.
  
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  All navies on Earth were obsolete.
  

IV. The Peninsula & Seven Days

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  Union commander George B. McClellan launched campaign to take Richmond.
  
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  Attack up the James River Peninsula.
  
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  McClellan was overcautious, indecisive.
  
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  Stalled in Front of Richmond, Confederates, led by Robert E. Lee launched “Seven Days” counter attack June 26^th to July 2, 1862.
  
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  McClellan retreats off the peninsula. (Fired)
  
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  Lee follows with victory at 2^nd Bull Run. 3 times as large as 1^st. Aug. 29-30, 1862.
  

V. Antietam.

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  Sept. 17, 1862 bloodiest day in American History.
  
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  Lee’s first invasion of the North. Armies met at Sharpsburg, Maryland.
  
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  3 battles in one day: “Cornfield,” “Bloody Lane,” and “Burnside Bridge.”
  
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  Technically a draw. Lee moved back into Virginia.
  
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  McClellan fired again…this time for good!
  

VI. The Higher Cause

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  Abraham Lincoln used the “Victory” at Antietam to issue his preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. (Sept. 23, 1862)
  
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  Freed slaves in states in rebellion. Military decree, “A Proclamation without Emancipation”
  

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  New union commander Burnside attacks Lee Army at Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862.
  
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  “It is well that war is so terrible – we should grow too fond of it.” R. E. Lee.
  
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  Confederate victory. “Northern Lights”
  
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  Burnside Fired!
  

VIII. Lee’s Greatest Victory

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  The battle of Chancellorsville May2, 1863.
  
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  Divided forces led by Stonewall Jackson’s surprised union.
  
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  Jackson Lost. Lee… “He has lost his left arm and I have lost my right.”
  
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  Union commander Joe Hooker Fired!
  
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  “God, My God, What will the country think.” -- A. Lincoln.
  

IX. Gettysburg

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  July 1, 2, 3, 1863.
  
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  Day 1 – Macpherson’s Ridge
  
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  Day 2 – Little Round Top
  
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  Day 3 – Pickett’s Charge
  
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  Decisive Union victory. Proved to be the turning point in the war.
  
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  Nov. 19, 1863 Lincoln gave a 2 minute speech to dedicate the new national cemetery. He spoke of a “…New Birth of Freedom.”
  

X. Vicksburg: The key to the West

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  General Grant laid siege to the fortress of Vicksburg on the Mississippi after two month siege Vicksburg surrender on the 4^th of July, 1863.
  
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  “The father of waters flows unvexed to the sea.” A. Lincoln.
  
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  Grant moves to Eastern Tennessee and clears Chattanooga of Rebels by the end of 1863… setting the stage for the invasion of Georgia.
  

XI. Lee vs. Grant

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  1864 Grant placed in charge of all Union Armies.
  
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  Grand strategy… 1) send Sherman into Georgia and 2) Attack and destroy Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia.
  
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  Grant struck toward Richmond. “Move by the left flank.”
  
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    Battle of the Wilderness. “Forest Fire.” May, 1864.
    
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    Spotsylvania Courthouse. “Bloody Angle.” May, 1864
    
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    Battle of Cold Harbor. “7000 Men fell in 20 Minute.” June 3, 1846
    
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    Petersburg. Siege. Prelude of WWI. June 1864 to April 1865.
    
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    Richmond falls April 3, 1865. Lee’s Army flees west.
    

XII. Sherman’s March

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  Begins May 1864
  
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  Atlanta Falls Sept. 1864
  
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  March to the Sea. Target Savannah 250 Mi., 60 Mile wide swath of destruction. “Scorched earth policy.”
  
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  “Make Georgia Howl.” – William T. Sherman
  
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  War is all Hell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  

XIII. The Issue is Settled !

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  Escaping Petersburg to the west Lee is finally cornered at “Appomattox Court House” Lee Surrenders to Grant April 9^th, 1865.
  
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  Good Friday. April 14^th, 1865
  
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  Lincoln is assassinated at Fords Theater by John Wilkes Booth.
  
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  “Now he belongs to the ages.”
  
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  “Useless, Useless.”
  
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  The last shot of the civil War.